ThatOwlWoman (01-15-2022)
☭ THIS IS SOCIALISM ☭
The Socialist leader Hugo Chávez was elected in 1998 and used revenues from the oil boom to spend heavily on social programs. He died in 2013 and Maduro took over.
Since then, oil-rich Venezuela has spiraled into economic and political turmoil and is nearing total collapse.
Hyperinflation has made its currency, the bolivar, practically worthless.
Severe shortages in food and medicine have left Venezuelans hungry and dying of preventable diseases.
Crime, often fueled by poverty, is rampant.
The socialist party has now run the country for two decades leading Maduro to say, ”We are a major force in Venezuelan history.” A large part of his power comes from the support of the military.
High unemployment and difficulty in accessing food and other basic necessities, including medicine, have forced millions of Venezuelans to flee the country in search of a better life.
Hyperinflation has devalued the Venezuelan bolivar by several orders of magnitude, compounded by wages that have fallen far behind the inflation rate. The International Monetary Fund estimates that the gross domestic product has shrunk by almost 80% since 2013.
https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disaster/venezuelan-refugee-crisis/#:~:text=As%20of%20December%202021%2C%20more,prima rily%20Colombia%2C%20Peru%20and%20Chile.
This guy thinks that is socialism.
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Food insecurity forces Venezuelans to adopt negative coping strategies like limiting portion sizes, begging on the streets or spending at least one day a week without eating.
https://reliefweb.int/report/ecuador/food-insecurity-lack-shelter-put-venezuelans-ecuador-risk-irc-launches-response
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Long lines at bakeries, murmured complaints on the street but fiery ones on the social networks and, finally, an official explanation: Cuba is suffering a shortage of flour due to problems at its mills, a situation that has made bread the most sought-after food item on the communist island these days.
In recent weeks, packages of flour have disappeared from the shelves in the state-run stores and, with them, a good portion of the bread for sale.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2471472&CategoryId=14510
Yep. Mr. Owl is actually aka Mr. Capitalist. He's fairly apolitical other than what's good for the markets -- and his investments. Yet even this guy would be called a "socialist" by the likes of the Cult and the typical non-Cult (R) because he thinks that a nation that provides low-cost or even free higher education is one that will continue to prosper, and a nation that ensures that all of its citizens are covered with a health care plan will continue to be prosperous as well.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
ThatOwlWoman (01-15-2022)
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